Improvement in eveners for cultivators



Vv. KV. GEORGE.

Eveners for' Gult'lvaiors.

N 154 472. Patented Au g.25y1874.y

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vILAEIoUs x. GEORGE, OE GENEsEO, ILLINOIS. i

IMPROVEMENT IN EVENERS FOR CULTIVATGRS.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 154,472, dated August25, 1874 application tiled July 7, 1874.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, VILA'aIoUs K. GEORGE, ofGeneseo, in the county of Henry and State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Eveners for Cultivators; and I dohereby-declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters' of reference marked thereon, which form part of thisspecification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof an evener or equalizer for cultivators', as will be hereinafter morefully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art.

to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will nowproceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to theannexed drawing, in which- Figure lis a plan view, Fig. 2 acentral-vertical section, and Fig. 3 part of a front view, of myinvention.

A represents an ordinary arched axle, with awheel, B, von each end. Tothe center of the axle A the tongue C is firmlyand permanently secured.0n top of the tongue C are pivoted two doubletrees, D and E, the formerin front of the axle, and the latter in rear thereof. From the ends ofthe front double-tree D depend bars a a, which are held firmly by meansof braces b b. The ends of the rear doubletree E are, by draft-rods d d,connected with the lower ends of the bars a a, and the singletrees G Gare connected at or tion of said bars and draft-rods.

near the junc- The draft on the double-tree E is thus downward, and,being in the rear of the axle, it has the tendency to throw the point ofthe tongue upward. The draft, being also upward on the bars a af,communicates -an upward pressure to the double-tree D, which beingattached in front of the axle, produces the same effect of throwing upthe point of the tongue, by means of which the downward pressure of thetongue produced by the draft of the plows is counterbalanced. This alsoforms an evener to which there is almost an unlimited vibration, doingaway with the objection existing in the eveners or equalizers nowgenerally in use, viz., that after a small amount of vibration theevener becomes rigid, and one horse, walking faster than the other, doesthe whole work.

This device may be 'applied to any cultivator.

. Having thus fully described'my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the double-trees D E, arranged on each side of theaxle and connected by rods d d, the depending bars a, a, braces b b, andsingle-trees GG, all operating together as and for the purposes setforth.,v

In testimony that I claim the foregoingv as my own I afx my signature inthe presence of two witnesses.

VILARIOUS K. GEORGE.

J. A. KLINE, JAS. M. ALLAN.

